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Liberals become radicals through their own frustrating experiences with the system, but also through becoming engaged with people who became radical before them. So when radicals who have already come to some important conclusions about the shortcomings of the existing system mock, deride or dismiss those who have not achieved the same level of consciousness, they are helping no one. This isn’t leadership, it’s infantile. It’s also a recipe for how to keep a movement tiny and irrelevant. If you want a movement of the politically pure and already committed, then you and your select friends should go right ahead and be the resistance to Trump.

Don’t shame the first steps of a resistance  (via kuanios)

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burned one of the key contacts for a radio story I’m working on because I’m an idiot and didn’t text using Signal uuuGGGHHHHHH

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stoked to wear this to my step-brother’s wedding as a giant middle finger to the fucking Gatsby theme.

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Naomi Campbell, Philip Treacy Fall/Winter 1999

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@possumsss yeah ok take me to the desert.

Teddy-bear cholla cactus, brittlebush, and red owl’s clover flowering on the Harcuvar Mountains in Arizona.

by Jack Dykinga

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The Muslim community is mourning the passing of Nabra, a 17 year old young woman from Sterling, VA. Nabra was beaten to death with a baseball bat and left in a pond after going missing while walking to a mosque with her friends. Hate crime against Muslim Americans is at its highest point with more than 67% increase since 2016. Nabra is another example of the escalating violence towards Muslims Americans. Activists gathered at Union Square to hold a vigil for Nabra and her family and to stand against violence against Muslim Americans. 

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ban teashops that play Death Cab at like 100 decibels.

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Masha’s are the only takes that matter re: Trump x Putin. Everyone else please for the love of god do something useful and shut down the AHCA and hey maybe develop an actual policy agenda. thnx.

We imagine the villains of history as cunning strategists, brilliant masterminds of horror. This happens because we learn about them from history books, which weave narratives that retrospectively imbue events with logic, making them seem predetermined. Historians and their readers bring an unavoidable perception bias to the story: If a historical event caused shocking destruction, then the person behind this event must have been a correspondingly giant monster. Terrifying as it is to contemplate the catastrophes of the 20th century, it would be even more frightening to imagine that humanity had stumbled unthinkingly into its darkest moments.

But a careful reading of contemporary accounts will show that both Hitler and Stalin struck many of their countrymen as men of limited ability, education and imagination — and, indeed, as being incompetent in government and military leadership. Contrary to popular wisdom, they are not political savants, possessed of one extraordinary talent that brings them to power. It is the blunt instrument of reassuring ignorance that propels their rise in a frighteningly complex world.

Modern strongmen are more obviously human. We have witnessed the greed and vanity of Silvio Berlusconi, who ran Italy’s economy into the ground. We recognize the desperate desire of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to be admired or at least feared — usually literally at his country’s expense. Still, physical distance makes villains seem bigger than they are in real life. Many Americans imagine that Mr. Putin is a brilliant strategist, a skilled secret agent turned popular leader.

As someone who has spent years studying Mr. Putin — and as one of a handful of journalists who have had an unscripted conversation with him — I can vouch for the fact that he is a poorly educated, under-informed, incurious man whose ambition is vastly out of proportion to his understanding of the world. To the extent that he has any interest in the business of governing, it is his role — on the world stage or on Russian television — that concerns him. Whether he is attending a summit, piloting a plane or hang-gliding with Siberian cranes, it is the spectacle of power that interests him.

In the past few months, Americans too have grown familiar with the sight of a president who seems to think that politics consists of demonstrating that he is in charge. This similarity is not an accident (nor is it a result of Russian influence). The rejection of the complexity of modern politics — as well as modern business and modern life in general — lies at the core of populism’s appeal.

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Taurus: It’s impossible to live in a world like ours without bending or changing or letting your own self down, and this week, remember that’s all okay. Drink a glass of cold water, or swim in the cool ocean, or sit on the porch in the evening, when the air starts to cool down. You’re still wilder than so many of the barriers out there. You still get to define how brave you want to be, and how kind.

Madame Clairevoyant, ���Horoscopes for the Week of June 19″ (x)

You still get to define how brave you want to be, and how kind.

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it’s the solstice, I’m Peak Hot™, and tomorrow I see my therapist for the first time in 18 months.

p u m p e d

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Louise Bourgeois - from the No series, 1973. 

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I want to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity.

Anaïs Nin, from an diary entry in The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume 1, 1931-1934 (via luthienne)

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Reveal yourself to yourself. Do not take refuge in a mirage. Do not take refuge–hell–even in your wildest, most private truth. To keep your dignity, you will first have to re-create it. Internalize it, vitalize it, tremble before it, sleep with it. You do not need to share it just yet. You merely need to feel it severely.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a diary entry, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Random House, 2001)

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The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook